Greenpeace chief has fought apartheid, poverty < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateAn anti-apartheid campaigner who on Monday became the head of the environmental group Greenpeace says he will use his activism know-how to spur governments into reversing climate change, stressing that unless dramatic steps are taken "all the world is going to sink."Kumi Naidoo is the first African to head Greenpeace, said...
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Wellington - Four activists from the Greenpeace environmental organization were arrested Tuesday as they tried to shut down a New Zealand coal mine supplying the world's biggest milk processing plant.Three women and a man from Greenpeace blockaded gates and chained themselves to an excavator at Solid Energy's New Vale Mine, near Gore in Southland, in a bid to cut off coal deliveries to the Fonterra...
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Greenpeace has welcomed the Indian government's ambitious solar energy plan - the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), which was released on Monday, ahead of the climate summit at Copenhagen.Sidddharth Pathak, climate and energy policy officer from Greenpeace India, said: "We welcome the formulation of the JNNSM from vision to action". He added that the plan "underlines the government's...
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week, lifelong human rights activist Kumi Naidoo takes over as international executive director of Greenpeace. Here, he explains why he is making the jump to a mainstream environmental organisation, and what role he sees for organisations such as Greenpeace in the modern world.I join Greenpeace in the "eye of the storm", in the final weeks before the crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen.It is the...
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Manmohan Singh has done quite well among global leaders on initiatives to fight climate change, according to a ranking prepared by the NGO Greenpeace. US President Barack Obama has fared the worst, while the premier of Tuvalu has come out tops.Leaders of all the major developing countries -- India, China, Brazil and South Africa -- fared far better than their counterparts from industrialised countries...
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Joydeep Gupta, New Delhi, Nov 10 : Manmohan Singh has done quite well among global leaders on initiatives to fight climate change, according to a ranking prepared by the NGO Greenpeace. US President Barack Obama has fared the worst, while the premier of Tuvalu has come out tops.Leaders of all the major developing countries -- India, China, Brazil and South Africa -- fared far better than their counterparts...
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per capita energy consumption is the lowest in the country and the government's rural electrification campaign is a "failure", according to a report by the Greenpeace India Society."Bihar's per capita energy consumption, at 75 kWh (kilowatt per hour), is the lowest in India and far below the national average of 613 kWh," the report, titled "Energy Injustice", said.According to Greenpeace India, only...
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JAKARTA: Greenpeace activists fromaround the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland forest inIndonesia on Thursday to demand more US action to stop deforestation.Fifty activists from a dozen countries, including major greenhousegas emitters the United States and China, also unfurled a massive yellow bannerwith a message for US President Barack Obama."Obama: you can stopthis," it...
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JAKARTA: Greenpeace activists from around the world chained themselves to excavators in a logged peatland forest in Indonesia on Thursday to demand more US action to stop deforestation. Fifty activists from a dozen countries, including major greenhouse gas emitters the United States and China, also unfurled a massive yellow banner with a message for US President Barack Obama. "Obama: you can stop this,"...
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Greenpeace has welcomed the Indian government's ambitious solar energy plan - the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), which was released Monday, ahead of the climate summit at Copenhagen.Sidddharth Pathak, climate and energy policy officer from Greenpeace India, said: "We welcome the formulation of the JNNSM from vision to action". He added that the plan "underlines the government's intention...
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